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...Ticks and Prejudice. As a young BAI inspector in the early 1900s, John Mohler set out to rid the U.S. of cattle tick fever...
...become the archetype of thousands of Government workers who serve their country well, grinding away at their jobs, oblivious of politicians and political upheavals. He had done more than any other American to rid the country of the dread diseases that plague livestock-bovine tuberculosis, foot-& -mouth disease, cattle tick fever and Bang's disease. So doing he had helped raise the whole standard of health...
...Spencer, his successor, is as modest as he is short. But his work in proving the tick transmission of deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever (in some places it kills nine out of ten) and developing a protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals...
Berg, who seems to like the warm weather, twirled his second shutout in four days, and was in superb form. Sixteen straight batters faced him and sat down before Husky left-fielder Hank Bartelloni bunted toward first. Berg made the play to Bob Slattery just a tick after Bartelloni had crossed the bag. It was a hit beyond doubt. The next batter promptly banged into a Berg-to-Gleason-to Slattery double play...
Brown turns scarlet when sportswriters call him Precision Paul. Nevertheless, it is his passion for punctilio that makes this year's Ohio State team tick like a Swiss watch. In a game, he forbids players to lie down during time out, forbids his water carrier even to come on the field...